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Poetry Calling 2
Write a poem that induces the emotions of someone who has been traumatized— you create the circumstances and situations!
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elijahmosswrite in Poetry & Free Verse

Blameless, Harmful? How?

At the next hour, harm is blameless since it has done all but

destroy film ran-out pictures names built immense

warehouses for the miserly occupants outside has no fear, blessed

door smallish pretty once the malaise

leave property onsite, closing up blocks in the dark

looked for guidance

long panting thick spayed

licks soaked against a flicker, foggy,

has the ugly feeling that a witness

does not

have reservations except how nakedly

my mouth lines up put behind impressions

skies no teeth tonguemeat goes the little

crooked fence and there is a person who is

witness behind low fade

seeing inside where air is a godless

lakeshore, and blight there is increasing calm here

nightly, action is kindred nigh, formed dropping harm alarm down hard rumor: does the witness have a newfound market ploy, creates scarcity, scared?

windows.

no harm go on and ask not single reel was rightly not talk for a place another place, spines eat months

In the face of volumes not a thing was learnt— images birds, fly frosted up high where there is no place for

The outline leaving, but rightly also, it should, witless stabs rain gloss: the world never

Staying and waiting for pangs,

Enclosed birthstone palms inform nothing wrongdoing goes without future explanation;

foul dwelling without a chaos: speechless loud

Sadness not for what is lasting behind each hourly reminder

no one needs leftovers raining

indoors seditious during cold

district, no one important but looks can serve.

Distinct!

There is a witness safeguarding an observation round

a name that has no recollection, but has

permeable outlines once breaking inside

past a line where no kind minute word

escapes alive similar places, not withdrawn

a witness who degrades a stockpile

streaks of defensive lanes strike how its comes for famished feelings

do not keep place, even sorted during yearly repeating.

going forward, seeing at the next hour

is thinner in how better blindness works in

patterns enclosed, unfolds all but here

sounding awful having such an orchestra of thinner

returns.